Benton Leads The Way

[[old] Xeno]

Hi Graham<br />Good job.<br />From what I remember you are not a water rower. Where did you learn the rowing motion. Is there a video clip somewhere?<br />1:37.7? But you still cleaned his clock.<br />What was your sport before you picked up Erging?<br />Did you take part at the 100K world record with John Goodall?<br />XENO

[[old] Niall]

<!--QuoteBegin-Graham Benton+Nov 22 2005, 04:41 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Graham Benton @ Nov 22 2005, 04:41 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Yeah, the blonde guy next to me is Andrew Triggs-Hodge, stroke for the GB 4- and stroke for the Oxford 8+ in the last boat race. He seemed like a top guy and has a 30 min rate 20 PB of something like 1:37.7 avg which is scary!!! <br /> </td></tr></table><br /><br />Did Andrew Triggs-Hidge row barefoot at BIRC? I saw a pair of trainers by the side of his ergo <br /><br />30mins r20 at 1:37.7?

[[old] Graham Benton]

Xeno, firstly - pleasure even speaking to you on a message board! Very honoured.<br /><br />I have been water rowing since Easter - my technique on the ergo was pretty poor when I first started 3 years ago and then got a bit better and now is pretty reasonable I think. I'm sure the water rowing has helped me groove my current stroke which seems to be extremely consistent in terms of power per stroke now.<br /><br />Before erging I was a fairly decent cricketer, which is not a very demanding sport physically, and a gym boy - have always trained with weights a fair bit just out of vanity.<br /><br />And yeah, I did the 100k with Jon Goodall and the MAD boys - nailed 1:08 or quicker on every go which was very pleasing.<br /><br />Oh, and Andrew Hodge did row barefoot which amazes me.

[[old] Xeno]

<!--QuoteBegin-Graham Benton+Nov 22 2005, 07:32 AM--><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><div class='genmed'><b>QUOTE(Graham Benton @ Nov 22 2005, 07:32 AM)</b></div></td></tr><tr><td class='quote'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Xeno, firstly - pleasure even speaking to you on a message board! Very honoured.<br /><br />I have been water rowing since Easter - my technique on the ergo was pretty poor when I first started 3 years ago and then got a bit better and now is pretty reasonable I think. I'm sure the water rowing has helped me groove my current stroke which seems to be extremely consistent in terms of power per stroke now.<br /><br />Before erging I was a fairly decent cricketer, which is not a very demanding sport physically, and a gym boy - have always trained with weights a fair bit just out of vanity.<br /><br />And yeah, I did the 100k with Jon Goodall and the MAD boys - nailed 1:08 or quicker on every go which was very pleasing.<br /><br />Oh, and Andrew Hodge did row barefoot which amazes me. <br /> </td></tr></table><br />Pleasure is all mine.<br />Have you had a lactate test? Do you know your aerobic threshold<br />Do you work with your heart rate watch?<br />Cricket, were you an endurance athlete ever before rowing?<br />What is your mileage per week rowing?<br />Do you cross train?<br />Do you do endurance weights?<br />The reasons for these questions are simple. I am thinking of Jamie Schroeder and other very gifted athletes with tremendous amounts of stamina for rowing/erging . My focus is to figure out whether the type of training Rob Waddell and I did, would bring you monsters (meant in a good way) down to 5:35 or even 5:30.<br />Have you had your VO2max tested?<br />My VO2 on the bike was 7 liters, and on the erg 6.5 L. The test was done at different times during my rowing career on different VO2 machines.<br />That is it for now.<br />XENO